World heading for irrevocable overshoot of global temperature thresholds, analysis warns

Failure to cut emissions will consign humanity to disasters they are unable to adapt to, report saysThe world is heading for an irrecoverable overshoot of global temperature thresholds that will plunge billions of people into disastrous climate impacts because governments have stalled for so long to cut planet-heating emissions, analysis has found.Under current policies, the planet will heat up by 2.7C on average by the end of the century compared with preindustrial times, the report by Climate ...